Initial Management of Injuries : An Evidence Based Approach

by Sing, Ronald F; Reilly, Patrick M.

• ISBN13: 9780727914774
• ISBN10: 0727914774
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-02
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

This is a practical clinical handbook using algorithms to assist initial decision making in injury management. Recommendations are backed up by evidence graded according to the research in other words, an evidence-based handbook for emergency medicine.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Introduction

Trauma triage

Airway management in the trauma patient

Evaluation of the cervical spine

Evaluation of thoracolumbar vertebral column injury

Evaluation and management of blunt spinal cord injury

Evaluation and management of blunt abdominal trauma

Evaluation of blunt thoracic trauma

Blunt aortic injury

Initial assessment and stabilization of the hemodynamically unstable pelvic fracture patient

Hematuria in blunt trauma

Penetrating chest trauma

Penetrating abdominal trauma

Penetrating trauma to the back and flank

Evaluation of gluteal gunshot wounds

Evaluation of vascular proximity in penetrating extremity trauma

Evaluatin of the injured upper extremity

Acute management of lower extremity trauma

Mangled extremity

Hand injuries

Management of the comatose patient

Mild and moderate traumatic brain injury: Glasgow Coma Scale >9

Maxillofacial trauma

Severe burns

Trauma in pregnancy

Hypothermia

Evaluation of near drowning

Electrical and lightning injuries

Evaluation of the sexually assaulted patient

Mass casualty

Preparation for patient transfer

Index

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